Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #268
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 268 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Right about now… Right here, right now in fact… Ladies and gentlemen, this week Pip is joined by superstar DJ and producer NORMAN COOK aka FATBOY SLIM!
“Fatboy Slim? Just a band…”
It’s so great when these music based episodes come around, especially when Pip has had previous dealings with the guest in question which is exactly the case with Norman. In fact you will hear the evidence of which at the very end of the podcast so keep that in the treat bank for now eh! A truly great chat with the two down on the coast in Norman’s Brighton home, where they catch up on all sorts covering the past, the present and the future of his career. As you’ll hear, it’s really quite a monumental career at that - indeed, he goes decades deeper than a few hit singles. From an early start with his band The Housemartins, he’s had more pseudonyms than Kool Keith and played to more people than - well, you name em… The very definition of a superstar DJ, let’s say! From some podcast chatter up top, to some light Millwall vs Brighton banter, to his early days in Reigate being a punk up against a sea of teddyboys, the homogeneity of culture these days, the relationship dynamics of being in a band, how he’s always been into indie and dance music when the two were not as mixed up as the present day, that insane Brighton beach show, collaborating with previous DPP guest Ryca, being very much in the public eye via his marriage to Zoe Ball and SO much brilliant music talk throughout. Immense! Listen and love!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 268. |
| 0:07.3 | How you all doing guys? I hope you're well. I'm joined today. This is one of the biggest ones. |
| 0:12.6 | I've held this as a secret because I was really excited about it and I'm excited for you |
| 0:17.2 | to all hear it. But I'm joined today by Norman Cook aka Mr Fat Boy Slim. Yeah. How good is this one? |
| 0:25.2 | I mean you've not heard it yet but trust me it's good. I was really excited to get to drive to |
| 0:31.5 | Norman's house in Brighton. I've said to mates off-record. I've decided it's my favorite house I've |
| 0:37.3 | been to. The locations great. The artwork is stuff that I'm into and yeah it's lovely. So we got |
| 0:44.7 | into it and we had a good chat and he revealed some honestly mind-blowing stories. I'll talk more |
| 0:52.7 | about things at the end. In fact also at the end one thing that we talk about in this is that I |
| 1:00.0 | recorded a little while after Daesh out had came out. Well we talk about how he hit me out |
| 1:05.3 | after Daesh out of where he was killed came out which was the first single I had that kind of |
| 1:08.7 | got in the charts and everything. And he asked me if I'd record Fat Boy Slim just a band. |
| 1:14.6 | So he could use it live. But we talk about that in the podcast and we talk about the huge places he |
| 1:20.3 | played it. And when I got home I emailed to say thanks and I got an email the next day saying |
| 1:26.8 | he was in the bath that night and he had his iPod on shuffle and the original recording of my |
| 1:32.6 | vocal with a little intro came on. So I asked him to fire it to me and we're going to pop that |
| 1:39.6 | at the end of the podcast. So stick around until the end is what I'm going to heavily suggest |
| 1:46.2 | because you get to hear me recording in my bedroom at my mum's house. Fat Boy Slim just a band. |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah it's pretty weird. Anyway I'll get on with it. As ever we're brought you by speech |
| 1:58.8 | available at ruckles.com and there's patreon.com slash shrewdious pip before I go though or before |
| 2:04.0 | we start I want to just let you all know as well another thing that we talk about in this episode is |
| 2:09.6 | Lindy Layton and how her and Norman met how they got together for dub be good to me which is one of |
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